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Is "What Still Remains" just a blatant rip-off of The Last of Us?

stinkyguy666

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I've never seen this movie and am only just learning about it. Is this just a fan-made poster or is this actual movie heavily "inspired" by TLOU?
 
EliVilla

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Can you tell me what the movies about?

This is what I found when I googled it.
"Twenty-five years after a viral outbreak decimates the population, the remaining survivors still fear that deadly illness and the change it created. Against this post-apocalyptic backdrop, a young woman loses her family and struggles to survive on her own in the wilderness. When a lonely traveler offers her a place in his community, she must decide if the promise of a better life is worth the risk of trusting him."

Sounds different enough. Could just be whoever made the poster is a big fan.
 
EliVilla

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LifeLine said:
I like how the names basically mean the same thing too.

Also not the first time TLoU was ripped off, the fungus monster in Maze Runner was straight out of TloU, even sounded the same.



The Road and some fungus documentary.
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But the maze runner came out in 2009 in book form.
 
DrMoguera

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The Last of Us wasn't really a novel concept to begin with, but that poster does look pretty blatant.
 

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The poster is pretty much a blatant copy, yes.

But reading the synopsis on Wikipedia, it seems the movie itself is distinct enough from The Last of Us, at least in terms of plot. The relationship between the main characters is completely different, too. Besides, the concept of "post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a virus that turns people into savage zombie-like creatures" isn't very innovative. 28 Days Later did that in 2002, for example.
 

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Lant_War

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Eh, I think it could be just a reference. It's too blatant for it to be someone trying to mask it.
 
eseqko

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Some one should create a 3rd faux-poster called "What Last Still of Us Remains "
 
Kalentan

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Obviously no one is saying the story of the movie is the same but that poster for sure is a direct copy.
 
ItWasMeantToBe19

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The Last of Us is suuuuuuuuuuper similar to Children of Men up until the ending.

As well as many other movies.

The ending of The Last of Us is interesting at least though.
 
gfxtwin

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Don't know about the movie itself, but whoever designed that poster sure had that game's boxart in mind, didn't they? lol!
 
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Nairume

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JusDoIt said:
Have you read The Road and played TLOU? Inspiration and imitation are not the same thing. TLOU was clearly inspired by Cormac. It did not copy Cormac tho. This shit copied TLOU.
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Maybe the poster, but the plot synopsis I'm seeing doesn't really sound much like TLOU.

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To be clear, What Still Remains isn't even about a Sad Dad.
 
Max|Payne

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It's super blatant they copied the entire template of the TLOU poster wholesale but they can probably get away with it, since it's for a different kind of work.
 
Nairume

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Seriously, though, this is the movie

A viral pandemic causes people to become violent and beastial. Twenty-five years later, young adult Anna and her brother, David, scavenge through the ruins of a nearby city. Spooked by the arrival of a ragged survivor, they flee back into the woods. David injures his ankle and urges Anna to leave him behind, believing their sick mother needs protection. Anna lies to her mother, assuring her that David will return shortly from a hunting trip. When Anna wakes the next morning, her mother is dead.

While gathering water, another stranger follows her back to her shack and introduces himself as Peter. After he agrees to surrender his weapons, Anna invites him in. Impressed with her self-sufficiency and skill, Peter reveals that he comes from a nearby religious commune. Noting the shack's religious iconography, Peter asks if she is a believer. Excited to find she was raised Christian, he invites her to join the commune. Although she initially declines, Anna accompanies Peter after remembering her mother's last wish – that she join other survivors.

On the way, Peter injures his leg in a trap. They bond further as Anna helps him. Peter explains that his parents either died or abandoned him, and the religious commune took him in. Encountering more ragged people, Peter explains they are Berserkers – pagans who worship the plague and act as if they are infected. Eventually, they come upon an old man at a campfire. Peter advises avoiding him, saying he may have set the trap. Anna frustrates Peter by hailing the old man. When they join him, his son comes out of hiding and disarms them. Anna angers Peter by inviting the men to the commune without consulting him. The old man says he has had bad dealings with the commune and pressures Anna to stay with them. Peter kills the men with a hidden knife, saying they would have raped Anna.

Although upset at what she believes to be Peter's unnecessary violence, Anna reluctantly surrenders her weapons to the religious commune when they arrive. Before she can be officially inducted into their community, she finds that a prisoner is to be judged. It turns out to be the man who chased her and David through the woods earlier, and Anna accuses him of killing David. Ben, the head of security, wants to release the prisoner, but Peter and Zack, the religious leader, vote to kill him for his sins. Anna is surprised to learn she must be baptised despite being a Christian. The other women in the commune seem to consider it a sort of marriage ceremony, further worrying her. When she expresses misgivings to Ben, he warns her that such talk could result in being labeled a heretic.

After the baptism, Peter forcefully kisses her. When Zack intimates that her duties include bearing children for the village elders, including Zack and Peter, Anna attempts to leave the commune. Peter stops her, saying God has given her to him. Ben interrupts them to warn that the Berserkers are massing for an attack. Peter, Ben, Anna, and several guards lead the prisoner out of the village, attempting to trade the prisoner's release for the commune's safety. Anna escapes when Berserkers attack them. She is stunned to find David among them. David hides her, and she watches as he executes Ben. The Berserker who was their prisoner attempts to punish David, upset that he let his sister escape. Anna returns to save David, but he refuses to leave the Berserkers, who he says have taught him to become strong.

Confused, Anna leaves David behind, encountering Peter again. Peter points out that the commune has been razed, and he insists on starting a new one with Anna as his wife. When she refuses, he attempts to rape her. She kills him, and he forgives her with his last words. Back at the commune, Anna finds only one survivor – Judith, Zack's wife. Judith, who hid while the others were tortured, says the harsh world has changed everyone for the worse, but Anna says all involved have simply chosen to act immorally.
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The similarities basically just seem to be the posters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also the movie sounds really fucked up
 
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